<p>I agree with Vladenschutte and CuriousJane. At the high school my daughter attended, there is a longstanding and alarmingly wide achievement gap between white and black students. I do not know how the gap would look if the data were tracked according to socioeconomic status; I do know that the district has a plan and targets for closing the well-documented gap between black and white kids, which is in the range of 50 percentage points in writing, reading, math and science as measured by the Prairie State Achievement Test. I would not be at all surprised if many other municipalities with racially diverse populations have been dealing with similar gaps. Whatever your race, you should not be comfortable with this. It sickens me. But it is an undeniable reality for some communities, and it doesn’t make sense to cry “racism” in the face of efforts to address the issue.</p>